And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for you have found favor with God.
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Bede
AD 735
We should carefully note the order of the words here, and the more firmly they are engrafted in our heart, the more evident it will be that the sum total of our redemption consists in them. For they proclaim with perfect clarity that the Lord Jesus, that is, our Savior, was both the true Son of God the Father and the true Son of a mother who was a human being. “Behold,” he says, “you will conceive in your womb and give birth to a son”—acknowledge that this true human being assumed the true substance of flesh from the flesh of the Virgin! “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High”— confess too that this same Son is true God of true God, coeternal Son forever of the eternal Father! Homilies on the Gospels
